Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-10-01

ture in the temple three grave and reverend
seigniors presented themselves armed with
manuscript books, ink horns and feather pens
and indicated that they had been sent to teach
us, and. with the exception Of Umsloposaas,
we all buckled to with a will, doing four
hours day. A. for umsopogaas he would
have none Of that either. He did not wish to
learn that "woman's talk, not he, and when
one Of the teachers advanced on him with a
book and an ink horn and waved them before
him i'll a mild persuasive way. much as
church warden iuvitingly shakes the oifertory
bag under the nose of a rich but niggardly
parishioner, he sprang up with a fierce oath
and flashed lnkosi-kaas before the eyes Of our
learned friend. AMI there was an end of the
attempt to teach him Zu-Veiidi
Thus We spent our mornings in useful occu-
patton which grew more and more interest
ing as we proceeded, and the afternoons were
given up to recreation. Sometimes we made
trips notably one to the gold mines and an
other to the marble quarries, both of which
wish had space and time to describe, and
sometimes we went out hunting buck with
dogs trained for that purpose, and very ex-
citing sport it is, rs the country is full of
agricultural inclosures, and our horses were
magnificent This is not to be wondered Mt.
seeing that the royal stables were at our com
mand. in addition to which We had four
splendid saddle horses given to us by Nv
lptha.
In the evenings it was customary for Sir
Henry, Good and myself to dine, Or rather
sup, with their ma ajesties-not every night.
indeed, but nbout three or four times week,
whenever they had not much company or the
affairs of state won!d allow of it, And nm
bound to say that those little suppers were
quite the most charming things of their sort
that ever had to do with How true is the
saying that the very highest in rank are
always the most simple and kindly. 1t is
from your half and half sort Of people that
you get pomposity and vuigarity. the differ
ence between the two Icing very much what
one sees every day in England letween tn.
old, out at elbows, broken down county fam
lily and the overbearing, purse proud people
who come and take the place. l really
think that Nyleptha's greatest charm Is her
sweet simplicity. and her kindly, genuine in
terest even in little things She is the sim
plest woman ever knew, and where her pas
sions are not involved one Of the sweetest; :;
but she can look queenly enough when she
likes and be as fierce as any savage, too
For instance, never shall forget that scene
when l for the first time was sure that she
was really in love with Curtis. Itcaine about
in this way-all through Gooo : weakness for
ladies' society. When We had been employed
for some three months in learning Zu-vendi
it struck Master Good that he was getting
rather tired of the old gentlemen who did u
the honor TO lead us In the way that we
should go, so he proceeded, without saying a
word to anybody else, 10 inform them thaS it
was 4 peculiar fact but that We could not make
any real progress in the deeper intricacies OF
o foreign language unless We were taught by
ladies-young ladies, lie was careful to ex-
plain. In his own country, he pointed out, it
was habitual to choose the very Lest looking
and most charming girls who could be .ound
70 instruct any strangers who happened to
come that way; etc.
All of this the old gentlemen swallowed
open mouthed. There was, they admitted.
reason in what he said, since the contempla-
ton OF the beautiful, as their philosophy
taught, induced a certain porosity Of mind
similar to that produced upon the physical
cody by the Eealthful influences OF sun and air;
consequently it was probable that We might
absorb the Zu- -Eendi tongue little faster il
suitable teachers could be found. Another
thing was that as the female sex was naturally
ioquacious, Sood prachce would lie gained in
the viva voce department Of our studies
To all of this Good sravely assented. and
the learned gentlemen departed, assuring him
that their orders were To fall IN with our
wishes in every way, and that, il possible, our
viows should be met.
Imagine. therefore, the surprise and dis
gus, Of myself and trust and believe Sir
Henry, when, on entering the room where we
were accustomed to carry Oh our studies, the
following morning, We found, instead OF our
usual venerable tutors, three of the lest look
ing young women whom Milosis could pro-
duce-and that is saying a good deal-who
blushed and smiled aud courtesied, and gave
us to understand that they were there to carry
on our instruction. Then Good, rs We gazed
at one another in bewilderment, thought fit
to explain, saying that it had slipped his men,
ory before-but the old gentlemen had told
him, OIL tine previous evening, that it was ab-
solutely necessary that our further education
should lie carried on by the other sex was
overwhelmed. and appealed to Sir Henry for
advice in such crisis.
WELL" he said, you see the ladies are
here, amt theyi II we sent them away, don't
you think it might hurt their feelings, ehl
One doesn't like to lie rough, You see; and
they look regular blues, don't they, chr
By this time Good had already begun bis
lessons with the handsomest OF tho three, aud
SO with a sigh l yielded. That day every
thing went very well; the young ladies' were
certainly very clever, and they only smiled
when we blun,iercd / never saw Good SO
attentive to his books before, and even Sir
Henry appeared TO tackle Zu-Vendi with .
renewed zest "Ah,r thought 1, will it al
ways be thus!'
Next day We were much more lively; our
work was pleasingly interspersed with ques-
tons about oar native country, what the Ia
dies were like there, etc, all Of which We an.
swered rs lest We could i'll Zu-Vendi. and
heard Good assuring his teacher that ter love
hness was to the beauties Of Europe as tue sun
to the moon; to which she replied with little
toss of the head that she was plain teaching
woman and Iothins else, and that it was not
kind TO decisive q poor girl soA Then We
had q little singing tba. was really charming,
81 Natural aud unaffected. The Zu.Vendi
love songs are most tou hing. On the third
day we were all quite intimate. Good mar
rated some Of his previous love affairs to his
fair teacher. and so moved was she
that her signs mingled with his own dis
courscd with mine, a merry, blue eyed girl,
Upon Zu Vcndian art. and never saw that shs
was waiting for an opportunity to drop .
specimen of the cockruacb tribe down my
back, while III the corner Sir Henry and his
e. yernesS appeared, so far - could Judge,
to lie going through lesson framed on the
great educational principles laid down by
Wackford Squecrs, Esq, though in a very
modified or rather spiritualized form. The
lady softiy !, pcatcd the Zu-Vendi word for